NumPy: numpy.tri() function

numpy.tri() function

The numpy.tri() function returns an array with ones at and below the k-th diagonal and zeros elsewhere, where k is the given parameter.

Syntax:

numpy.tri(N, M=None, k=0, dtype=<class 'float'>)

Parameters:

Return value:

tri : ndarray of shape (N, M) - Array with its lower triangle filled with ones and zero elsewhere; in other words T[i,j] == 1 for i <= j + k, 0 otherwise.

Example: Creating a triangular array with NumPy using np.tri()

>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.tri(4, 6, 0, dtype=int)
array([[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0]])

The code creates a 4 x 6 triangular array using the NumPy function np.tri().
The first two arguments of np.tri() specify the number of rows and columns, respectively, in the resulting array (4 rows and 6 columns in this case).
The third argument, k=0, specifies the diagonal offset. When k=0, the main diagonal is used, which means that the elements above the diagonal are set to 0 and the elements below the diagonal are set to 1.
Finally, the dtype=int argument specifies the data type of the array as integers.

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Example: Creating a Triangular Matrix with Numpy using np.tri()

>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.tri(4, 6, 1, dtype=int)
array([[1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0]])

In the above example, we create a 4x6 triangular matrix with k=1 (the diagonal above the main diagonal) and dtype=int. The resulting array has ones in the diagonal above the main diagonal, and zeros elsewhere, forming an upper triangular matrix.

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Example: Creating a Lower Triangular Matrix using Numpy's tri function

>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.tri(4, 6, -1, dtype=int)
array([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
       [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]])

In the above code, the function np.tri(4, 6, -1, dtype=int) creates a 4x6 matrix with -1 offset, which means that the first lower sub-diagonal is filled with ones and the rest with zeros. The dtype parameter is set to int to create an integer array.

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